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Ode to rounded corners, the visual element that has proven Steve Jobs right once again

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Let’s pay a small tribute to a visual element that we almost never pay attention to, but that is already an integral part of our lives. Let’s talk about rounded corners. They are everywhere and have taken over technology. We love them. We are full of devices and interfaces dominated by rectangles and squares with rounded corners. They are more elegant, softer to look at, much less aggressive and strident. But there is a true psychology behind that way of designing objects and interfaces. For example: since we were little we always knew that sharp corners were dangerous – today corner protectors for children are a big deal. These elements facilitate visual perception, and their introduction into the technological world deserves to be remembered. Steve Jobs was right (again) Andy Hertzfeld was one of the team members who developed the Apple Macintosh. In May 1981 he shared a curious story, now recovered by the Computer History Museum. Lisa OS 1.0. Look at the edges of the calculator app. They are rounded! The protagonist of that story is Bill Atkinson, legendary Apple engineer and Hertzfeld’s partner on that project. At that time Atkinson was working on the development of his QuickDraw application – then called LisaGraf – and although he usually worked from home, if he made any significant progress he would quickly go to the office to show off the improvement. That’s what happened that spring. Atkinson approached Apple’s offices in mythical “Texaco Towers” Cupertino campus and showed how he had added code to be able to draw circles and ovals very easily. Programming that was much more complicated than it seems because square roots were usually involved to achieve it and the Motorola 68000 of the Lisa and the Macintosh did not support floating point operations. Atkinson managed to solve it with calculations that only used addition and subtraction—he was probably inspired by the Bresenham algorithm—and began to fill the screen with circles and ovals while his companions probably smiled in astonishment and satisfaction. But there was someone who was neither too amazed nor too pleased. That someone was Steve Jobs. Upon seeing the demonstration, Jobs said —Okay, circles and ovals are fine, but How about drawing rectangles with rounded corners? Can we do that too? —No, there is no way to do it. “It would actually be really difficult to do, and I don’t really think we need it,” Atkinson replied, probably annoyed that Jobs hadn’t been too impressed with his method for creating circles and ovals. —Rectangles with corners are everywhere! Look around this room! Hello, Mac OS X with rounded corners (2001). Sure enough, the room had objects like whiteboards and tables with rounded corners, and Jobs insisted that they were everywhere and that he only had to look out the window to notice. He ended up convincing Atkinson to take him around the block and point out all the rectangles with rounded corners they saw. After seeing a no parking sign that was rectangular with rounded edges, he said: —Okay, I give up. I’ll see if it’s as difficult as I thought. And he went home to work on the problem. The next afternoon he returned to the office with a huge smile: his new demo I didn’t just draw rectangles with rounded cornersbut it did it almost as fast as it did drawing rectangles with corners. He added that code and called that primitive “RoundRects”. In our pockets we usually carry a device that makes good use of these rectangles with rounded corners. The iPhone, of course, does it. That design element soon became an integral and indispensable part of the Macintosh operating system interface. And it also ended up being part of the hardware (hello, mobile phones with rounded corners) and software design at both Apple and many other technology companies. Source: Freepik. The Cupertino firm also fully integrated it into its iPhones starting in 2013, when iOS 7 and its “squircle” arrivedan even more subtle type of rectangle with rounded corners that he ended up using, for example, in his icons. It was one more example of the particular relevance of a design element that has ended up completely taking over our screens and the technological world. Long live the rounded corners. In Xataka | Many young people already see and hear everything at 1.5x. They didn’t get there by chance: there was a lot of money at stake

create 3,000 jobs to modernize the army

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International pressure for Spain invest more in defense had never been so remarkable. NATO has made it clear that member countries must achieve spending goals much more ambitious, and the Spanish Government has responded with concrete measures and heavy investments. Just as the war in Ukraine and other tensions have led Europe to beef up its security, key opportunities are emerging for domestic industry, and a wave of hiring is coming. Rain of millions for Indra. The latest agreement between the allies sets as a goal dedicate 5% of GDP to defense in 2035, although Spain already meets the previous minimum objective of 2% in 2025. Compared to 2024, the country has increased military spending by 43.11%, raising the budget from 22,693 million to 33,123 million euros, according to official data from the Atlantic Alliance published by The World. In a new step towards this investment objective, the Government announced this week the granting of 6,890 million euros in credits for companies involved in the development of new technologies and equipment for Defense. Among all these companies there is a great beneficiary: Indrawhich will attract 6,582 million euros in investment. Investing does not mean buying. The Government has insisted on its approach of using this increase in defense spending not simply to modernize the Armed Forces with better equipment, but its commitment is to turn Spain into a producer of new technology. that can be sold to other countries. In this context of investments in Defense, Indra just announced through a statement that will generate 3,000 direct jobs related to the development of technologies and tools for military modernization. This represents a relevant opportunity for young people who are thinking about directing their training towards technology or engineering in areas of application in military defense and cybersecurity. A commitment to technological employment. Indra, one of the defense contractors most benefited for rearmament in Spain and Europe. Ángel Escribano, executive president of Indra Group, has confirmed that “we will generate wealth throughout the national territory through high added value jobs, an industry that is as self-sufficient as possible and completely national advanced technology”, making clear its commitment to young technological talent in Spain. According to sources of Indra, currently its supplier network is already made up of an ecosystem of companies in which more than 65% of its national supply network is made up of SMEs, startups and technological or research centers based in Spain. Around 77% of Indra’s subcontracting already benefits the national industry, and the company estimates that the current value chain, made up of approximately 1,000 employees, will add another 200 partners and suppliers in the coming years. There are already 2,400 open vacancies. Indra’s intention to expand its workforce with new additions of engineers and technical personnel was seen even before the Government made official the granting of the credits approved by the Council of Ministers, and already before the summer opened the vacancies to attract 2,400 new qualified professionals. With an eye on FP. To make talent attraction more efficient, Indra has signed agreements with 346 vocational training centers and plans to incorporate 75% of the interns into its workforce this year in 2025. A third of Indra’s staff in Spain are graduates in some vocational training branch. Escribano has pointed out that “we are convinced that Vocational Training not only trains thousands of young people each year, but is a lever of transformation for our society. A country that wants to develop a solid industrial capacity and real technological autonomy must decisively bet on vocational training, as Spain does.” In Xataka | Italy has activated “rearmament” in Europe: the longest suspension bridge in the world will connect Sicily for the passage of tanks Image | Indra, Unsplash (ThisisEngineering)

“The best jobs will not be those who studied at the best universities”

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Until relatively recently, having a university degree guaranteed a well -paid job. In fact, This is so In the vast majority of professional areas except if you want to dedicate yourself to ia. According to the statements of Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn and Executive Vice President of Microsoft Office and Copilot collected by Business Insider: “(…) The future of work will no longer be one of those who have the most prestigious titles or studied in the best universities, but to those who are adaptable, avant -garde, are willing to learn already adopt these tools.” The “ai fluency” sweeps the titles. Traditional perception of university degrees to achieve quality job It is changing by leaps and bounds. Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn, has made it clear that the future of the most attractive jobs will not be reserved only for those who study at the best universities. The person in charge of LinkedIn and Copilot recalls that the essential thing today is “the disposition of professionals to constantly update and adopt new technological tools”, since the ability of adaptation and continuous learning It will be prioritized above the degrees, adding points to the “Ai fluency“That more and more professional profiles claim, in reference to the literacy in the use of AI tools in the workflow. A mantra in the technological sector. Roslansky is not alone in his speech. Beside him, relevant figures in the development of AI such as Sam Altman, Mark Chen or Jensen Huang, have also manifested themselves in very similar terms. “You will not lose your work at the hands of an AI, but you will lose your work at the hands of someone who uses artificial intelligence,” He sentenced Huang at a conference. Openai managers have also pointed out in that regard by stating that “it is less and less necessary to have a doctorate in AI”, contextualizing a growing demand for skills such as critical thinking for make the right questions in land where AI has not yet developed, but has a margin of expansion. In this sense, the university studies They do not guarantee that ability. Hence the insistence of the managers of these companies to reduce university degrees and value other skills. Degree is not the same as knowledge. AI is having such a big and so fast expansion that Formative centers do not supply to train as many professionals as the sector demands. Therefore, companies do not always link the decision to hire new candidates for their Academic training in AIbut in skills and practical knowledge of AI tools to improve your performance in the position. According to the published data By LinkedIn, job offers that require knowledge in artificial intelligence grew around 70% in the last year. The upper titles keep counting, but they are not the only way. While technology has opened a gap in the importance of titles for specific profiles, higher education and professional training (which is also higher education) remain paths with excellent perspectives. In Spain, 46.96% of the new job offers during the last year They requested FP profilescompared to 21.4% who requested university students. In fact, most of the new hiring in technical sectors in 2025 will be for FP titledand in technical careers, most companies already recognize that the professional path goes to know how to adapt and update, regardless of the educational route. In Xataka | Talent scarcity has chronified to an extreme point: 75% of companies do not find what they are looking for Image | Unspash (Zheyu Huang, Arif Riyanto)

What Steve Jobs thought about intelligence

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A good way to help us work our path to success is to find inspiring figures. People from different areas that reached significant goals and who had often overcome multiple adversities. Fortunately, we live in a connected world where many speeches or experiences of those who can be our referents are at hand. The speech. We must not necessarily match everything. Sometimes it is enough to find certain anecdotes or advice that can be adequate for certain moments of our life. It is no secret that Steve Jobs has inspired thousands of people, and continues to do so. A speech provided In 1982 by Apple’s co -founder at the Academy of Achievement It has a part that has not gone unnoticed. Much is talk about intelligence. Some believe that this capacity is key to achieving great achievements in life, and that it is directly related to intellectual coefficient (CI). Others believe intelligence It has nothing to do with the ICeven some claim that it is a secondary capacity to achieve achievements, and that it is of no use if there are no defined goals, action plans and, above all, discipline. But what did Jobs think? As Ign points outthe businessman had a fairly peculiar vision of what it was to be intelligent. For him, he was mainly on people’s ability not to see things individually, but to understand them as a whole. To do this, it was essential to take distance and contemplate a problem or a situation as if they were looking from the top of a building. Let’s see exactly what Jobs said: “I have reflected a little about this, and one of the things that I think is important is that it has a lot to do with memory, but also with the ability to get away a little, as if you were in a city and you could see everything from the 80th floor, looking down. While others try to discover how to go from point A to point B reading those absurd maps, you can see everything in front of you.” This successful businessman continues to explain that power away allows us to see everything as a whole, and make connections that, from that perspective, seem obvious. “Therefore, brilliant people often feel guilty, because they come up with things that simply say” look this “, and other people give them silly awards and feel weird,” he said, precisely in the academy that recognizes the achievements. Other ideas. For Bill Gates, another personality of the technological world, success was to consider the worst and best scenario. Microsoft co -founder left in the background qualities such as reading or exercising memory, although We know that it has a huge library and that he dedicates much of his time to read. For Warren Buffettthe key to achieving success is high as time as time. Images | Apple In Xataka | Sam Altman’s advice to achieve success in a competitive world: build a solid network and be constant *An earlier version of this article was published in August 2024

The irrational fear of changing jobs has a name and influences your decision making: sunk cost fallacy

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Often people They cling to jobs that they no longer satisfy them – or that, directly, They do not support-, but they resist leaving it moved by the fear of losing everything they have invested to get to where they are: time, effort or training. Although it may seem strange, this behavior responds to a psychological bias called sunk cost fallacy. This bias can delay decision making to leave a job and perpetuate itself in an unfavorable work situation that can even affect mental health .. What is the sunk cost fallacy? Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem coined for the first time In 1972 the idea of ​​cognitive bias psychologists such as Daniel KahnemanNobel Prize in 2002, were based on the work of Tversky and Kahneman To demonstrate The profound influence of this bias on business and personal decision making, being relatively easy to be trapped in that immobility situation. Richard Thaler presented for the first time The practical concept of the fallacy of the sunk cost, concluding that people have a greater tendency to use a certain good or service when they have previously invested money in them. According Research From the University of Ohio (USA), the fallacy of the sunk cost refers to the trend that people have to continue an activity or remain in a certain situation because resources have already been invested in it, although these resources are unrecoverable and the logical decision would be to abandon it. In labor decision making, falling into the fallacy of the sunk cost – or of unrecoverable cost – implies postponing indefinitely the decision to change jobs Just because we do not want to “lose” what has cost us to reach the current position. The bias in important decisions This thought error causes people to stagnate in jobs that do not motivate them and are even restricting their professional potential, even when there are evidence of other more beneficial and rational options. The bias is based on a determining psychological factor such as loss aversion. For example, the personal feeling of responsibility for the resources already invested, or the fear to seem like a “wasteful” to others, can make someone stay years in a job that no longer provides satisfaction or professional growth. In Psychological researchit has been proven that the change of work is postponed, although the alternative is clearly better. This paralysis is produced by this aversion to the psychological loss that supposes that all the effort made in the past has fallen into a broken bag. Trapped in their own trap A study carried out by the researchers at the University of Kansas with more than 1,000 participants showed that, who fall into this fallacy, have greater symptoms of anxiety and postpone the search for professional help. Recent research From the Department of Psychology and Economics of the University of California in San Diego, they reflect that “the fact that you have dedicated unrecoverable resources to a project does not mean that you have to sink with the ship,” said their authors. The scientific evidence It reveals that, to avoid making irrational decisions, it is essential to identify this cognitive bias and learn to make decisions based on objective data and future possibilities, not in what has cost you to reach the point where you are. Recognizing the fallacy of the sunk cost is the first step to overcome it In labor decisions. If this awareness does not occur, there is a risk of continuing to invest resources, even more intensely, falling into a vicious circle that will be increasingly complicated to leave. Such and as they highlight From Asana, it is important not to get carried away by immobility and make decisions based on objective data and take an external perspective, not get carried away by fears and investments of the past. In Xataka | We thought to choose among more options would make us freer. The “choice paradox” says no Image | Unspash (Marco Kaufmann)

Steve Jobs changed his Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG of $ 120,000 every six months. And everything was due to registration

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When Steve Jobs was Apple’s CEO he used to drive from Your home in Palo Alto until The company’s headquarters in Cupertino. It was a trip of about 20 minutes that made several times a week with his Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG. This car, of approximately $ 120,000It was a whim that many technological entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley could afford without blinking. Jobs’s car, however, was special for a reason. Only. Unlike any other SL55 AMG that could be found out there, the one who handled the co -founder of the apple signature had no registration. If walking on the 1 infinite loop campus you met a silver mercedes in one of its parking spaces, that was your vehicle. Now, for a long time it was not clear how Jobs managed to move in a car that apparently contradicted California’s laws. Leasing. How our Applesfera colleagues collectApple’s leader was not doing anything illegal, but had found a way to use a car without registration over time. To get it, it simply changed Mercedes every six months. This was due to the fact that local regulations allowed new cars without identification for about 180 days. The idea was perfect, right? But there are many other interesting details. Do not buy. While Jobs had a lot of money, fortune that these days is using its widow Laurene Powell JobsI didn’t buy a new car every time I needed it. The technological environment Itwire had the opportunity To interview more than a decade ago to Jon Callas, who was CTO of Entrust and had worked on several positions in Apple. Callas said that Jobs had a leasing agreement that allowed him to renew his car for an identical one every year. Obsession. So why did all this the co -founder of Apple? Apparently, to preserve your privacy. Registing can reveal personal information about the vehicle’s owner, so Jobs wanted to avoid this. An interesting note is that, at least between 2006 and 2010, the businessman committed very few infractions. Wired counts that in that period of time he received two citations, both for speeding in Santa Clara. A peculiar guy. Jobs was a very particular visionary. In some aspects of his life he was very rudimentary. For example, he lived practically without furniture at home because none convinced him, Although he had a “secret room” in Pixar to develop his ideas. In certain areas I did not doubt that when He ordered a yach of 120 million dollars whose lines and minimalism remember an Apple product. Images | Mercedes-Benz Ag | Apple | Joe Ravi In Xataka | It is not Steve Jobs, it is Mustafa Suleyman: Microsoft’s CEO that points to the tendency to dress “Jobs style” *An earlier version of this article was published in August 2024

This worker combined three jobs for a year. They threw it out of the three the same day

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We don’t know if We will run out of work because of AI, But for the moment we do know that There are people carrying the concept of multi -employment to another level. Many share their experience in the Reddit Overemployed community And there has been a case that has caught the attention. A worker tells that he had three simultaneous jobs and, without waiting for him, on the same day he has lost them all. According to the worker, the fault has LinkedIn. What happened. The worker himself tells in This Reddit publication. He is dedicated to sales in the technological sector and during the last year he has been hired in three companies at the same time. The companies were not aware of this situation and thought that the employee was with them exclusively. Everything was going well until one of his bosses tried to look for him on LinkedIn and, not finding him, he began to suspect. LinkedIn’s chivato. The boss who looked for him in LinkedIn did not find him because the employee had been in charge of blocking the whole world of company No. 2 not to discover him. However, he did not count on the boss to contact the hiring agency, which he had not blocked and that he could access the profile where he put that he had another job in company No. 1. Not only did they say goodbye, they also contacted the company No. 1 that, in less than an hour, also fired him. Unemployed. He still had a job, a company in which he had been working for two years. Nor could he keep it. Those responsible for the company Nº2 contacted them and at the end of the same day he had lost all three works. In this case it was not for LinkedIn, but because the worker mentioned the company No. 3 in his curriculum. In its publication, the now unemployed gives congratulations to the Human Resources Department “respect your dedication to ruin my life.” There have been more cases. He is not the only one that combines several jobs in secret. In the same community of Reddit we can find many more cases and in Xataka we have also treated them, such as that of this Barcelona company that He discovered that one of his employees had another job. There are even those that even exceed the protagonist of this article and reach the four jobs at the same time either This engineer who was winning a fortune Thanks to teleworking and chatgpt. Remote work. Obviously, these people do not have full -time face -to -time jobs. At the moment Teleworking is falling capebut the figures are still higher than prepandymia. This has allowed some people to decide to combine several jobs without their employers knowing it. The trick of some workers is do the minimum in each job so as not to have too long days. The role of AI. Many of these multi -employed admit to using AI tools, like this I assured Vice that “AI does 80% of my work” and he only dedicated himself to more complex tasks or refine what AI had done. Others use the Slack messages, write emails or take notes in meetings. By saving these tools for a long time, This engineer He managed to complete the work in less time, allowing him to get up to two additional works with which he has paid the mortgage and the university of his children. Image | Vlada Karpovich, Pexels In Xataka | Four different works already: how teleworking and chatgpt are facilitating “multi -employment”

A Barcelona company wanted to try the four -day week. He ended up firebaging an employee for having two jobs

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Sometimes life shows us paradoxical situations in which a manager who seeks the well -being of his employees with the four -day work weekends by saying goodbye to them for Compagate two simultaneous jobs. To give a more twist to this story than has published GenbetaIt is worth mentioning that the company’s CEO lavished on its social networks the advantages of having a “Side Hustle” or secondary employment. Preparing for four days. Patrick Syng is co -founder and commercial director of Metrickal, a remote hiring company based in Barcelona. The entrepreneur wanted to prove to implement the four -day week for your employeesso I needed to know What their employees used time of her day to optimize her. Something essential to make the leap to this type of day, which It does not mean doing the five -day job in fourbut optimize the day to take less to complete the tasks. The first step to do it was to ask all employees to install in their work teams the Desktime softwarea time monitoring program that monitors what programs he uses and for how long each employee. In this way, it could raise changes and Optimize processes To implement the four -day week. Low performance and tasks that do not correspond to it. When analyzing Desktime’s data, the businessman discovered that, an employee with whom he had already had several meetings for low performance, he was performing tasks with applications that did not correspond to his position in Metrickal. The employee, which I worked 100% remotelyit had not delivered the tasks in the deadlines and several clients had complained about their work. “While showing some signs of improvement, its general performance did not change much. This meant an important burden for the rest of the team, which had to cover its shifts and deal with the breeding deadlines,” assured Patrick Synge a Business Insider. “I had the feeling that I was doing something apart, but since there was no evidence, I didn’t want to draw precipitates.” The employee forgot the software. In the analysis of data collected by monitoring softwarethe manager discovered that the employee spent more than half of his day working for an American company, whose trail had remained in the software reports. “It seems that he forgot the tracking software, since once it is downloaded, it does not require any manual ignition and off. Probably, I would have fired it anyway, but the tracked data were the blunt test that was missing.” However, what truly irritated Synge was the lack of respect of the employee towards his companions who had to, for its little performancethey had to adopt part of their tasks. “It was not fair or respectful of the team, and that is something that I cannot tolerate, its actions were simply selfish,” said the manager. Two jobs, but which one is the main one? It’s not nor the first casenor is it probably the last one, of employees who They combine two or more jobs at the same time in your remote workday. The problem is that employee performance had fallen And he was not fulfilling his first job. “As an entrepreneur, I have to think about my business and my customers. I can’t afford to lose customers because someone wants to earn extra money,” said the manager. In fact, there is the circumstance that Patrick Syng is A firm defender of what is called “Side Hustle” or secondary works, offering them as an option to capture external vendors for their products. A whole paradox in which Patrick assumed that it was the main job of that employee, but never considered that, perhaps, it was secondary employment. Spain more and more multi -team. While it is true that in Spain this phenomenon of simultaneous jobs is not as widespread as in other countries, a Study conducted by Infojobs It indicates that 15% of employees in Spain have at least two jobs (who do not have to be simultaneous, but combined). 40% of these multi -employed employees do so To complement the low wages In departures or for hours, while 32% do so for providing additional income to their main salary. In Xataka | Not everything is 38.5 hours a week: the formulas for a waiter or temporary to benefit from the reduction of day Image | Unspash (Faizur Rehman), Pexels (Alexey Komissarov) *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

AI is changing to the way we buy. Andy Jassy has warned its employees that this will affect its jobs

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In your report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’the World Economic Forum advanced that by 2030 92 million jobs were going to move due to the effect of AI on the labor market. That means that some of the current jobs They will cease to existwhile new new jobs will be generated in place. Andy Jassy, ​​Amazon CEO, headed In a statement sent to its employees in those same terms, announcing that the Amazon template will suffer a displacement in its labor mass caused by the Automation of AI. Amazon will not be the same. In his statement, Jassy says that, In a few yearsthe Amazon structure will not be the same today. It cannot be if they want to remain a competitive company. “As we implement more generative and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the work that is done today, and more people doing other types of work,” he wrote. In other words, Jassy confirms the theory that at the beginning of the year already raised the World Economic Forum: that the impact of AI would not mean the net destruction of employment in its workforce, but would force Amazon to restructure their departments to reduce employees in some and hire more employees in others. The elephant in the room. The Employment displacement theory In Amazon, however, he raises some doubts for which not even the Amazon CEO has an answer: at what rhythm will that change occur? Is Amazon capable of maintaining the balance of your template? “It is difficult to know exactly how this will be translated over time, but in the coming years we hope that this will reduce our total template as efficiency increases thanks to the extensive use of AI throughout the company,” Jassy wrote in his statement. According to StatistaAmazon currently employs 1.56 million people worldwide, making it the second largest private employer in the United States after Walmart. The change in their stores. Amazon is not the first time he faces a dilemma like the one posed by its executive director. The e-commerce giant already faced him when he began the automation of his logistics centers. On that occasion, a whole Robot Army replaced the employees who were responsible for searching of products. However, as they were implemented Those automated systemsSLA company created new positions of preparation, sending orders, maintenance and engineering. According to data from Amazon,This automation needed 30% more used for its logistics centers. The problem in that case It was the same which is currently raised: many jobs were eliminated with the arrival of robots, but the Creation of new positions It was gradual, leaving a temporary job deficit. Change is not among the same. Another of the problems posed by Amazon’s forecast and that makes a big difference between what happened in logistics centers and the arrival of AI, is that the new positions that, according to Andy Jassy, ​​will be generated, are not equivalent to those who will cease to exist. A warehouse employee It cannot develop a new AI function for the Amazon store. In that sense, CEO’s words to their employees mark A solution for your employees: “Be curious about AI, Edúquense, attend workshops and take training, use and experiment with AI whenever they can.” In addition, the statement insisted “the most transformative technology from the Internet is already here. Those who hug this change are familiar with AI, help us to build and improve our internal levels and contribute value to customers, will be well positioned to have a great impact and help us reinvent the company.” That is, paraphrasing a phrase that has run like gunpowder on the Internet in recent years, “AI will not take your job, it will be taken away from someone who knows how to use it.” If the client changes, you have to adapt. According to the document signed by Jassy, ​​the AI ​​”will change the way we all work and live”, so companies must change their structure to adapt to those changes. The manager referred to the change in habits in the form of search and buy products that users are already starting to use. Tools based on Amazon’s own as Alexa+, but must also respond to the changes that other companies are promoting like Google Lens and the Circle to Search functionor through searches engines based on AI as the overview that Google has integrated into its browser. If the user changes his way of searching for products, Amazon must adapt to it and, according to Jassy, ​​that will generate internal changes. “It will change the way we all work and live. In all companies and in all imaginable fields,” said the manager. Amazon scissors. Regardless of the announcement of great changes in the Amazon squad for the coming years, the company was already coming from a restructuring trajectory of its workforce that, such and as they detail In Laysoff.fyi, it began in 2022 and has already resulted in 27,940 employees without employment. The announcement of its CEO is nothing more than the confirmation that this restructuring process will be chronified and Amazon will continue to adapt its template to the needs and advantages presented by AI. In Xataka | Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Image | Amazon

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates seemed irreconcilable enemies. They were actually great allies: “We worked well together”

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In the field of technology, times of A fierce rivalry between large companies to master a certain market: Intel and AMD, Sony and Nintendo, Nvidia and AMD or, of course, Apple and Microsoftwith Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as representatives of that rivalry. However, beyond that business competitiveness to achieve The best products of the market with PC or Mac: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs cultivated a relationship of “intimate enemies” based on mutual respect and recognition. Complementary adversaries Microsoft and Apple’s story has been marked by rivalrybut on many occasions, both companies have collaborated hand in hand to develop products. However, despite those collaborations that, for example, took Office to the Macintosh, has maintained the image of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as eternal irreconcilable rivals. Nothing is further from reality. In An interview For the podcast ON PURPOUS From Jay Shetty, Bill Gates confessed that Jobs and he were complementary, and that allowed them to work together on different projects. “I had a fantastic relationship with Steve. At first I worked with Jobs and Wozniak with Basic for Apple 2, and later, as Steve had a small group inside Apple developing the Macintoshinvited Microsoft to make some software applications for him. We work very closely in that project. We loved both of the result and ended up being a key product for Apple, “Gates explained. The founder of Microsoft stressed that “although we were very competitive, we also admired each other.” Apparently, Steve Jobs thought the same as Bill Gates. In one historical interview in which journalists of The Wall Street Journal Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg sat on both on the stage of conference D5, Steve Jobs claimed citing the song Two of the Beatles: “‘You and I have longer memories than the path that extends ahead’ and that is clearly true in this case.” Gates assured that the secret of the long relationship of love/hate between Apple’s co -founder and he was that both were complementary. “We worked well together. He was very good in what I was not,” said the millionaire. Without Apple and Microsoft the computer science would be different The visions of how a Microsoft and Apple computer should be They were very differentand a faithful reflection of the strengths of their two leaders. While Apple put all the focus on design and efficiency, in Microsoft they focused on developing a platform for their software with the aim of taking a computer to each house. “They said we were out of reality, but we knew that computer science would be part of everyday life,” Gates recalled in his interview. “Steve had incredible skills. He appreciated the user design and interface and even for his intuition with people. It was simply a genius in a way that I cannot explain. I did not look at the code or write it. Instead, the programming is mine. Let’s make that faster and more efficient code.” This rivalry and concept differences caused computer science to advance to the mature industry that is currently, with two companies reaching capitalizations that range The 3 billion dollars. This success would probably have been impossible Without the incentive of the competition which was lived in the late 90s and early 2000s. Microsoft’s co -founder millionaire recognized that both had speeches about how computers would change education and improve it, although he also acknowledged that projects to improve the use of computers They were not always successful. “I think we were both satisfied with what we had done. We got a seat in the front row and helped build all this,” Gates said in reference to the last conversations he had with Steve Jobs before his death in 2011. In the joint intervention that both founders made in 2007, Steve Jobs defined how he saw the competition between Apple and Microsoft of the late 90s: “Many people believed that the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft was a zero -sum game in which for Apple Microsoft won had to lose. It was clear that it was not necessary to play that game because Apple was not going to beat Microsoft. Microsoft. In Xataka | Elon Musk got outstanding in computer science. Who designed the computers they used did not approve with the same ease Image | Flickr (Joi Ito, Kazuhiro Shiozawa)

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